Frederick Seidel Selected Poems
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ISBN10: 0374260818
ISBN13: 9780374260811
Hardcover
288 Pages
$30.00
CA$39.99
Frederick Seidel has been hailed as "the poet of a new contemporary form" (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books) and "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review). The poems in Frederick Seidel Selected Poems span more than five decades and provide readers with some of Seidel's most powerful work.
Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today."
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Praise for Frederick Seidel Selected Poems
"This selected, spanning half a century, demonstrates that Seidel’s renegade candor has only sharpened with age. With an erudite lexicon, staccato and ambling vignettes, and a frequently debonair tone, Seidel’s poems combine the sensibilities of the Greatest Generation and the Beats. They document a lust for life through a blunt and sensual dreamscape punctuated by labyrinthine conceits . . . This book offers a slice of Seidel’s life: the amorous, the dark, the indulgent, and the restless mind captured by a master of craft."—Publishers Weekly
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From Sunrise
(1980)
1968
A football spirals through the oyster glow
Of dawn dope and fog in L.A.’s
Bel Air, punted perfectly. The foot
That punted it is absolutely stoned.
A rising...
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Frederick Seidel
